Original title: Effect Of Intensive Dance-Exercise Intervention On Brain Plasticity In Healthy Seniors And Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment
Authors: Klobušiaková, Patrícia
Document type: Papers
Language: eng
Publisher: Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií
Abstract: Intensive dance-exercise intervention leads to cortical thickening in the inferior temporal and lateral occipital cortices of the right hemisphere that are engaged in the ventral visual pathway; and to the increase in resting-state functional connectivity within the frontoparietal control network, i.e. the cognitive brain network that controls visual attention tasks. Subjects undergoing an active intervention improved in the five-point task that evaluates particularly executive functions. These findings show that 6-month intensive non-pharmacological intervention may enhance distinct brain plasticity and executive functions in a mixed cohort of healthy seniors and patients with mild cognitive impairment. Further longitudinal studies should examine whether it may also prevent/postpone cognitive decline and dementia in this population.
Keywords: aerobic exercise; cortical thickness; dance; fMRI; frontoparietal control network; healthy seniors; mild cognitive impairment; resting state functional connectivity
Host item entry: Proceedings of the 24th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2018, ISBN 978-80-214-5614-3

Institution: Brno University of Technology (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available in the Brno University of Technology Digital Library.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/138180

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